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Loquen, 2018 In most common definition a bilingual is a person who is able to speak and understand two languages. Most of us consider bilingualism as something good, an advantage. For one thing, knowledge of another language enables people to communicate with members
Ila Amalia
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Nature, 1989 Speech, in any language, is continuous; speakers provide few reliable cues to the boundaries of words, phrases, or ther meaningful units. To understand speech, listeners must divide the continuous speech stream into portions that correspond to such units.
Anne Cutler +3 more
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Bilingualism: Theoretical perspectives of language diversity
South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 1992 Bilingualism and second language acquisition are discussed with reference to different theoretical perspectives. An integrated definition of bilingualism is provided and concepts underlying second language acquisition are presented.
Carlin L. Stobbart
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Accepting a “New” Standard Variety: Comparing Explicit Attitudes in Luxembourg and Belgium
Languages, 2021 Language maintenance efforts aim to bolster attitudes towards endangered languages by providing them with a standard variety as a means to raise their status and prestige. However, the introduced variety can vary in its degrees of standardisation.
Judit Vari, Marco Tamburelli
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The Bilingual Home Language Boost Through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Usage-based accounts of language acquisition suggest that bilingual language proficiency is dynamic and susceptible to changes in language use. The COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented modifications in the language learning environment of developing ...
Li Sheng +5 more
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Regulation and Control: What Bimodal Bilingualism Reveals about Learning and Juggling Two Languages
Languages, 2022 In individuals who know more than one language, the languages are always active to some degree. This has consequences for language processing, but bilinguals rarely make mistakes in language selection.
Anne Therese Frederiksen +1 more
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Individual and Sociolinguistic Differences in Language Background Predict Stroop Performance
Frontiers in Communication, 2022 To examine how differences in language experience and sociolinguistic context impact cognitive control, 146 Spanish-English bilingual participants were tested on a non-linguistic Stroop arrows task.
Max R. Freeman +3 more
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Psychology of Language and Communication, 2021 Many first language acquisition (FLA) studies have found a strong correlation between lexical and grammatical development in early language acquisition.
Salleh Rabiah Tul Adawiyah Mohamed +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) reportedly struggle with the comprehension of aspect. However, since aspect and tense are closely entangled in the languages spoken by the children with DLD in previous studies, it is unclear whether ...
Lijun Chen +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Bilingualism has been reported to significantly delay the onset of dementia and plays an important role in the management of Alzheimer's disease (AD), a condition inducing impairment in the brain network and cognitive decline.
Haiqing Liu, Longhuo Wu
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